Provides guidance on various aspects of emergency planning and preparedness for dealing effectively and safely with transport accidents involving radioactive material, including the assignment of responsibilities.

This publication provides a practical resource for emergency planning, and fulfils, in part, functions assigned to the IAEA in the Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency. If used effectively, it will help users to develop a capability to adequately respond to a nuclear or radiological emergency.

The development and implementation of an appropriate infrastructure to support the successful introduction of nuclear power and its safe, secure, peaceful and sustainable application is an issue of central concern, especially for countries that are considering and planning their first nuclear power plant. In preparing the necessary nuclear infrastructure, there are several activities that need to be completed. These activities can be split into three progressive phases of development. This publication provides a description of the conditions expected to be achieved by the end of each phase to assist with the best use of resources. 'Milestones' refer to the conditions necessary to demonstrate that the phase has been successfully completed.

This book is the first of a new series which will present the proceedings of the newly established Nestlé Nutrition Workshop Series: Clinical & Performance Programme aimed at adult nutrition. Undernutrition is a common phenomenon in elderly people, and malnutrition reaches significant levels in those being in hospital, nursing homes or home care programs. Consequences of malnutrition often go unrecognised owing to the lack of specific validated instruments to assess nutritional status in frail elderly persons. The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) provides a single, rapid assessment of nutritional status in the elderly of different degrees of independence, allowing the prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition to be determined and to evaluate the efficacy of nutritional intervention and strategies. Easy, quick and economical to perform, it enables staff to check the nutritional status of elderly people when they enter hospitals or institutions and to monitor changes occurring during their stay. Moreover, the MNA is predictive of the cost of care and length of stay in hospital. This publication will be of immense assistance to heads of geriatric teaching units, teachers in nutrition, clinicians general practitioners and dieticians, enabling them to better detect, recognise and start treatment of malnutrition in the elderly.

* a trilingual dictionary with more than 4200 entries * offering an indispensible vocabulary of basic medical terminology * for physicians, medical students and everybody connected with the medical profession * contains important expressions and phrases, essential for professional succes in forein countries * enableing communication with patients od different nationalities as well as medical report writing in foreign languages * acknowledges the particularities within intricacies of Brazilian Portuguese Un diccionario triling e con mas de 4200 aceptiones * Vocabulario basico indispensable de terminos medicos * Para medicos, estudiantes y personal especializado en medicina para suaplicacion en el extranjero * Contiene importantes terminos y expresiones que el medico necesita adiario en su entorno profesional * Obra de consulta imprescindible, tanto para la conversacion conpacientes extranjeros como para la traduccion de informes medicos * Atiende a las particularidades del portugues de Brasil Um dicionario trilingue com mais de 4200 entradas * O vocabulario basico indispensavel de termos medicos * Para medicos, estudantes e tecnicos de medicina no estrangeiro * Contem exxpressoes e frases importantes para o medico no seu ambiente profissional quotidiano * Uma obra de consulta indispensavel no contacto com doentes estrangeiros e na traducao de relatorios medicos * Considera a especifidade do portugues do Brasil'

Radiation oncology is integrated with medical physics for a unique look at the state of the art in cancer patient care. World-renowned authors provide a complete discussion of treatment planning featuring the clinical, physical, and technical aspects involved. Coverage includes 3-D conformal treatment and other advancements in computer technology and medical imaging to bring the reader a modern perspective on treatment planning.